1. Roger L. Franz
Publications and Papers
Updated through 2018
Roger L. Franz, “Prospects for Energy on Earth (Fifth Edition, 2018).
https://www.slideshare.net/RogerLFranz/prospects-for-energy-on-earth-5th-edition-2018
Roger L. Franz, “Full Material Declarations: Removing Barriers to Environmental Data Reporting.}
SMT007 Magazine,July, 2018. http://iconnect007.uberflip.com/i/1000349-smt-july2018/86
Roger L. Franz, “Stay Ahead of Regulations with FMDs.” ConnectorSupplier.com, April 11,2018.
http://www.connectorsupplier.com/stay-ahead-regulations-fmds/
Roger Franz, “Full Material Declarations: Removing Barriers to Environmental Data Reporting,”
Electronic Design,Mar. 16,2018.
http://www.electronicdesign.com/industrial-automation/full-material-declarations-removing-barriers-
environmental-data-reporting
Roger L. Franz, “Full Material Declarations: Removing Barriers to Environmental Data Reporting.”
Presented at 2018 IPC Apex Expo Technical Conference,San Diego, CA, Feb. 26, 2018. Available:
https://www.slideshare.net/RogerLFranz/full-material-declarations-removing-barriers-to-environmental-
data-reporting/RogerLFranz/full-material-declarations-removing-barriers-to-environmental-data-reporting
Roger Franz, “Connecting with the Planets.” Electronic Design,Jan. 23,2017. PDF
http://electronicdesign.com/embedded/connecting-planets-one-company-s-role-missions-mars-jupiter-
and-beyond
Online feature article: http://enewspro.penton.com/preview/electronicdesign/ED-001/20170123_ED-
001_857/display?utm_rid=CPG05000002063791&utm_campaign=9348&utm_medium=email&elq2=00e
9ff9ca3944e18a85d8d926cbf3c4a
Roger Franz, “Passive Components Get Active.” Electronic Design,Dec. 5,2016. PDF
http://electronicdesign.com/passives/passive-components-get-active
R. Franz, “How Will We Get the Gallium?” Electronic Design,April 4, 2016. PDF
http://electronicdesign.com/gans/how-will-we-get-gallium
R. Franz and J. Montgomery, “TE Desired MCC Features.” Enovia Materials Compliance Central
Advisory Board Meeting, Dassault Systèmes, Waltham, May 6-7, 2015.
Roger Franz, “Beyond “Lead-Free”:An Update on the IPC-1752A Standard for Materials Declaration.”
Electronic Design,Jan. 8,2015. http://electronicdesign.com/components/beyond-lead-free-update-ipc-
1752a-standard-materials-declaration
Also available from IPC:L http://www.ipc.org/feature-article.aspx?aid=Beyond-Lead-Free-An-Update-
on-the-IPC-1752A-Standard-for-Materials-Declaration
Roger L. Franz, “Reverse Logistics is Fundamentally Logical.” EBN Online,Dec. 17, 2012.
http://www.ebnonline.com/author.asp?section_id=2811&doc_id=256132
R Franz, “Prospects for Energy on Earth.” 2012. Available at
http://rogerhammer.net/files/Prospects_for_Energy_on_Earth_Franz-4thEd_2015.pdf put in slideshare
2. R. Franz, “Status of ULE Draft Standard 102 for Door Leafs.” Presented to Door & Access Systems
Manufacturers Association (DASMA) International, Chicago, IL, Sept. 27, 2011.
R. Franz, “Sustainability, Standards and Future Trends.” Presented to International Microelectronics and
Packaging Society (IMAPS),Milwaukee/Chicago Chapter, session on Environmentally Innovative
Electronic Concepts, Arlington Heights, IL, Sept. 20, 2011. Available:
https://www.slideshare.net/RogerLFranz/sustainability-and-standards-presented-at-imaps-sep-20-2011
Roger Franz, “Standards and Sustainability.” Presented to IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society,
Chicago Chapter,Aug. 24, 2011.
Roger Franz, “Making Serious Light of Metals,” UL Lumen Insights,May-June,2011, p. 3.
http://www.ul.com/global/documents/corporate/aboutul/publications/newsletters/lumeninsights/Lumens_
May_June%202011-eng.pdf
R. Franz, “The Life Cycle of Materials in Mobile Phones.” UL White Paper,June, 2011.
http://library.ul.com/?document=the-life-cycle-of-materials-in-mobile-phones
Roger Franz, “Negative Differential Resistance Leads to Some Positive Results.” Electronic Design,
June 29, 2010. http://www.electronicdesign.com/archive/negative-differential-resistance-leads-some-
positive-results
Roger Franz, “Use Nonlinear Devices as Linchpins to Next Generation Design.” Electronic Design,June
23, 2010. http://www.electronicdesign.com/archive/negative-differential-resistance-leads-some-positive-
results
Roger L. Franz, “Environmental Programs in the Consumer Products Sector.” Electronics &
Sustainability: Design for Energy and the Environment, Illinois Sustainable Electronics Initiative,
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Feb. 24, 2010.
Roger Franz, “Archiving Your Musical History,” EQ Magazine,Oct.,2007, pp. 48-9.
Roger L. Franz, “Case Studies in RoHS Compliance: Eight Ways to Reach the Goal.” IPC/JEDEC 11th
International Conference on Lead Free Electronic Components and Assemblies, Boston, MA, Dec. 7,
2005. Preview: https://priorart.ip.com/IPCOM/000141384/
R. Franz, “Pulling the Plug on Current Drain: Advances in Material Selection for Reducing Standby
Leakage.” IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine,Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 12-16, November/December,2004.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1364770
Roger L. Franz, “Application of Threshold Switches to Limit Standby Energy Loss,” PriorArtDatabase,
April 19, 2004. Preview: http://www.priorartdatabase.com/IPCOM/000028020/
Roger Franz, “Recycling of Small Electronic Products,” Recycling Today, June 15, 2004.
https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/calling-for-help/
3. Roger Franz, “Remove RoHS Colored Glasses and Roll Up Shirtsleeves,” Semiconductor International,
April, 1, 2003, p. 34. Co-published in Electronic Packaging and Production,v.43,no.4, April 1, 2003.
Reprint: https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-101207282.html
R.L.Franz, “Optimizing Portable Product Recycling Through Reverse Supply Chain Technology,” IEEE
International Symposiumon Electronics and the Environment, May 6-9, 2002,San Francisco,CA, pp.
274-279. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1003279
R. Franz, “Recycling Portable Electronics,” presented in teleconference to Design for Environment Panel,
The Electronics Product Recovery and Recycling (EPR2) Conference and The Electronics Recycling
Summit, Arlington, VA, April 17-19, 2001.
M. Stutz, R. Franz, I. Nicolaescu, U. Wagner and P. Tzscheutschler, “Energy Use in the Life Cycle of
Cellular Phones: A study of the impacts during manufacturing and use.” Joint International Congress and
Exhibition, Electronics Goes Green 2000+, September11-13, 2000,ESTREL Congress Center,Berlin,
Germany.
M. Stutz, R. Franz, and M. Zurkirch. “Environmentally Preferred Phone: A Joint Pilot with Swisscom.”
European Telecom Network (ETNO) Conference,Ipswich, UK, Nov., 2000.
R. L. Franz, “The Use of Failure Analysis as a Preventative Quality Tool.” Presented at ASM Materials
Week ’92, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2, 1992, and published in Journal of MaterialsEngineering and
Performance,Vol. 2, No. 6, pp.793-797 (Dec.,1993).
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02645679
R. Franz, “Case Studies in Early Component Analysis for Improved Reliability.” Guest speaker,Illiana
Section ASQC meeting, Sept, 15, 1992.
Roger L. Franz, “Failure Analysis in Today’s Quality System.” in Transactionsof the 46th
Annual
Quality Congress,May 18-20, 1992, Nashville, TN, pp. 869-875 (Milwaukee, WI: American Society for
Quality Control, 1992). http://asq.org/qic/display-item/index.html?item=9908
Carl Bloomer, Roger Franz, Martin Johnson, Susan Kent, Bob Mepham, Scott Smith, and Lois Walker,,
“Failure Mechanisms in Through-Hole Packages.” Electronic Materials Handbook: Packaging, Volume
1, pp. 969-981 (Metals Park,OH: ASM International, 1990).
R. Franz, “MI Physics: Why It Sounds Like It Sounds,” The Daily (Pro Sound News),Oct. 8-11, 1984.
R. Franz, “Papers on Optimizing Loudspeakers,” The Daily (Pro Sound News),Oct. 14, 1984.
R. Franz, “Optimizing Stereo Imagery: Douglas Jones on 3-D Sound,” The Daily (Pro Sound News),Oct.
15-16, 1984.
R. Franz, “Audio Component Reliability,” Quality,June,1983, pp. 50-51.
R. Franz, “Coil Continuity Testing: One Solution,” Electronics Test,July, 1983, pp. 90-91.
R. Franz, “Shure Cartridges Bring Life to Old 78 Records,” Shure Shots (Shure Bros.,Inc.,Evanston, IL),
January/February, 1983, p. 5.
4. Roger Franz, “Evaluate Products and Packaging with Drop Tests.” Evaluation Engineering, Oct.,1983,
pp. 56-57.
Roger L. Franz, “Continuous Flow Analysis of Cholesterol Digitonide.” Clinical Chemistry, April, 1978,
pp. 725-726. http://clinchem.aaccjnls.org/content/clinchem/24/4/725.full.pdf
Roger Franz, Letters. “Educators' vital role.” Environ. Sci. Technol.,1969,3 (6),pp 508–510
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es60029a605
